The Grete Marks exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum is a great reminder that art history is no different than all other history: Shaped by a fairly narrow group of people and pock-marked with omissions. What’s nice about a show like this is that it re-sets one’s thinking about a storied moment in time while also correcting one of those omissions.

The storied moment in this case is the Bauhaus School (Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – art and design heroes to a lot of us). Margarete (Grete) Heymman enrolled in the school as a young woman. It was 1921, and at the time the enlightened Bauhauslers tended to direct women toward pursuits like weaving. Apparently the school’s modern attitudes about the sexes weren’t all that modern after all. Walter, Paul, Wassily, Ludwig – how could you? | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

The Milwaukee Art Museum's admission will be free on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is to mark the opening of "30 Americans," a multi-generational art exhibit featuring the work of African American artists.

Many of the artists in the exhibit address issues of race and cultural identity in very direct ways, and the show is one of the first in the museum's featured exhibition space to explore such issues so directly. The museum has also placed "Wisconsin 30" an exhibit of 30 African American artists from the state on view. | June 13, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Lauren Conrad, fashion designer, style expert and best-selling author, teamed up with Kohl's to treat three teens from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to a celebrity styling session Wednesday night in Milwaukee.

The event took place prior to Conrad's book signing for the launch of Infamous: A Fame Game Novel, the finale to her The Fame Game series, at Boswell Book Co. | June 13, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)